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Updated Darren, Keri and Sky Share this: iStock From technologically competent spinach to flying cars, today's stories sound like something out of a 'Jetsons' episode. 1. X-Rated Amsterdam nights are coming to an endLovers of long, R-rated weekends in Amsterdam will have to get used to new surroundings in the future as the city is set to move its infamous red-light district outside the city centre. The red light district is currently located in De Wallen, a historic part of Amsterdam’s city centre, and is enclosed in a triangle surrounded by Warmoesstraat, Zeedijk, and the street running ...

Amsterdam to relocate red light district as part of crackdown on 'gawping tourists' A series of changes are happening in Amsterdam to transform the kind of tourists the city attracts Amsterdam's red light district is moving out of the city centre Credit: Getty Amsterdam’s famed red light district will be closed and moved to an ‘erotic centre’, following an agreement by concillors. The news is the latest in a prolonged war against the supposedly seedier aspects of the Dutch capital. In April 2020, Amsterdam's council banned red light tours from the medieval district, also called De Walle...

Amsterdam will move its red-light district out of the city center, citing tourist behavior Shannon McMahon © iStock/Washington Post illustration Amsterdam officials have agreed on a proposal by the city’s mayor to shutter its famous red-light district’s brothels and move sex workers out of the city center, the Guardian reports. At a Thursday meeting, the majority of Amsterdam’s city council said they were in favor of creating a new “erotic center” outside of the central district, according to local news reports. Amsterdam’s city council has gained cross-part...

Windows in the red light district of Amsterdam. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images The brothel windows of Amsterdam’s red light district will be closed and an “erotic centre” will be set up away from the city centre, councillors have agreed. A proposal from the city’s mayor, Femke Halsema, to shut down a significant number of the windows in the narrow alleys around the docks was backed by a broad group of political parties. The sex workers in the De Wallen red light district will be invited to move to a purpose-...

Dennis Boutkan of the Labour party said the move would “reset” Amsterdam as a visitor city. The CDA’s Diederik Boutkan said tourists were “welcome to enjoy the beauty and freedom of the city, but not at any cost”. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Sex workers stand in the windows of brothels in the area to attract custom, but have become a tourist attraction in themselves. Lobby group Red Light United previously claimed that 90 per cent of female sex workers it had surveyed wanted to be based in the windows that line the network of narrow canal-side streets and alleyways that mak...